| It strongly supports Pliocene and Pleistocene australopithecines being ancestral not to humans but to modern African pongids. |
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| The first recognizable hominins, the australopithecines, appeared in the Pliocene. |
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| The diet of South African australopithecines based on a study of dental microwear. |
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| The fierce solitary killers fed on antelopes, baboons and australopithecines. |
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| In the second episode we meet the ape-men known as australopithecines, who split into two sub-species, one vegetarian, the other meat-eating. |
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| The eating habits of ancient hominids known as robust australopithecines have been a matter of debate for decades. |
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| In the human evolutionary family, the so-called robust australopithecines claim the dubious honor of possessing the weirdest-looking heads. |
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| The skeletal anatomy combines primitive features known from australopithecines with features known from early hominins. |
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| Some of the extinct members of this family include Gigantopithecus, Orrorin, Ardipithecus, Kenyanthropus, and the australopithecines Australopithecus and Paranthropus. |
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| Recent studies suggest that Australopithecines still lived part of the time in trees as a result of maintaining a grasping big toe. |
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| Historically the human lineage, evidently only at some point in the past in the Australopithecines, assumed obligatory upright posture. |
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| Among Paranthropus boisei's close relatives are the Australopithecines, which also gave rise to humans. |
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| Australopithecines have a cranial capacity of around 400-450 cc. |
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